H-E-B is bringing curbside service to its Central Market stores, starting with its Fort Worth store on Thursday.

But it's not stopping there with the combined online shopping and customer pickup service that Walmart and Kroger, at dozens of their stores, have proven is in demand among Dallas-Fort Worth shoppers.

Two Dallas Central Market stores will have the new dedicated curbside area this year. The curbside area and an expanded kitchen are under construction on the east side of the Lovers Lane Central Market and will open in the spring. A new Central Market on West Northwest Highway and Midway Road in Dallas, where the grocer is gutting a former Albertsons store, is scheduled to open in June with the pickup area included.